The Press., 1887-11-24

skin and the lungs are joined in one and thejsame function and yet this senseless custom is becoming daily more general, and that, too, at the very period of the year when nature manifests her windom bv providing the animals with additional,cov- ing, and mankind put on their furs and overcoats. But the groom protcata that 'is .impossible to dry a thick coated ami. nal ;; that is, without expending more of that physical attention for which he is paid than he desires to bestow. To illus trate the effects produced by thick wet covering, and by a thin wet envelope, May hew relates the result of e very simple ex. pertinent, winch the reader may, without trouble, institute for himself "Obtain two bottles, wrap one closely in several layers of calico; around the other fix oply Q single, tightly Hitting one, of the same fabric. Saturate the cloths of both bot. ties with water; also i'll the interior of each with the same liquid. Renew the moisture to the two coverings as either be. comes dry. After twelve hours. test the temperature of the contents from either bottle. That from the thickly covered one (which may remain vet will be unchanp. ed, or warmer for the confinement: that contained in the thinly protected bottle (which shall possibly be dry) will be very cold-so cold that in warm climates. water is thus rendered a cool drauRht: nav. the hotter the medium to which the bottles have been exposed, the colder will be the liquid Tn the thinly coated vessel. Now. the stable Is always a heated medium, The animal with a thick coat is represent. cd by the bottle with thick encasement. the contents of which are not chilled by the moisture, which saturates its envelope. The Clipped steed is represented by the bottle thinly enfolded, the liquid within which becomes cold. But it may be urged the clipped horse is never smoist. Then, |persptration must be checked, and fever must be present; for, during health, the pores of the skin are never inactive. Where the coat is removed, superficial perspiration, accompanied with constant evaporation, must always be taking place. Where the hair is thick, moisture natural ly accumulates, because the covering pre- vents superficial evaporation, and thereby checks the operating cause of internal frigidity."
 Youatt, another high authority, says {: ''As to the practice of clipping and shaving the horse, it occasions chilling of the frame, exhaustion of the vital power and dangerous reactions of fever"
 Now, whence emanated this merciless practice? answer, from the brain of the lazy, -lndolent groom or coachman, who, in order to escape the use of the currycomb and brush, persuadss his master to have all the hair removed from his faithful ser wants body. The undersigned has assured himself that, in the majority of cases the ladies and gentlemen owning horses are wholly ignorant of these facts, or else err from want of reflection.
 A horse thus shorn, as Mayhew saya. lis deformity. The color is unnatural, the coat is dull and stubbhrn looking, most unlike that polished surface which IS native to the beautiful quadruped.
 1t has been ascertained in Boston that a horse thus shaved or clipped, will not live over three gears. The shameful results of this abominable cruelty to the most useful of all the lower animals are too numerous to mention. A famous veteri- nary surgeon told me, some time ago, that three fine horses had just died, to his knowledge, owing to clipping, end will conclude this appeal by urging all hu. namely inclined people who continually feel how indispensable to themselves are furs and cloth, to aid in putting an end to the abominable practice.
 MT. A. V. Van Buren's horse fell dead ( short time since in the streets of Rondout A post mortem examination showed thsI the air.cells of. the lungs were filled witl clotted blood; otherwise the animal wal in perfect health. The horse was clippet short time before, and thus chilled t, death. When will this inestimable scr want of mankind be free from the torturel of clipping, and the check reinp
 Respectfully, HENRY BEnaH, President.